This is a great tool. The wildcard capability is especially appreciated. Is there a way to adapt the code so that, if several folders fit the wildcard pattern, I could cycle through them to find the one I wanted and then have the code set that one as the active folder?

In other words, if it found a match, and I answered “No, I don’t want to move to the found folder,” is there a way that the code could continue to search from there, find the next wildcard match and then ask me the same question again.

Many thanks again for the tool and any advice you could give on my question.

problem with cycling through the folders and then continuing if its the wrong folder is that you need to “remember” where you are so you carry on from there – not so straight forward in the code. Will take it under advisment for next time though

Gotta echo Joe here. Number 1 – of course, THANKS THANKS THANKS for writing this tool and making it publicly available. Number 2 (a distant number 2!) it would indeed be a lot more helpful if wildcard searches didn’t end at the first hit. I’m a cruddy programmer myself but I skimmed through your code and it looks like you have a subroutine that goes through all folders to look for a match – and when found you escape from the sub and present the result to the user. Could you present the result to the user while you are still inside the subroutine, and give the user three choices instead of the current two: (a) jump to this found folder, (b) keep looking or (c) quit. Or are there problems in Office Basic that make this more complicated?

Been a programmer for 30+ years (not PC stuff though). This is a great tool and thank you SO much! Would it be so difficult for the Microsoft people to spend a little less time on screwing up the user interface every release and a little MORE time giving us tools, like yours, that actually make things easier?

No macro is needed.
In Outlook 2010: Ctrl+Shift+F, Advanced tab, Field->All Mail Fields->In Folder. Enter your folder’s name in the Value field. Use the condition to simulate wildcards (or not).
Does not work if the folder is empty…

I have the same issue as Sprky: “When I run the macro, Outlook hangs. After 3 minutes, I shut down Outlook and try again. Same issue. Most of my folders are in a separate .PST file. Does this create an issue?”.